Example sentences of "[verb] be doing [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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1 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
2 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
3 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
4 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
5 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
6 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
7 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
8 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
9 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
10 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
11 | I 've been doing it for years . |
12 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
13 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
14 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
15 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
16 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
17 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
18 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
19 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
20 | I 've been doing it for |
21 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
22 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
23 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
24 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
25 | Women have been doing it for years . |
26 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
27 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
28 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
29 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
30 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |